Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration

Full of lush medical illustrations which predate photography, Sick Rose provides a journey into the macabre and often unsettling clinical view of developing medical science and practice through the lens of the art that developed with it.

O Rose thou art sick,

The invisible worm

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

- William Blake